{"id":9465,"date":"2017-08-04T15:29:45","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T19:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=9465"},"modified":"2017-08-04T15:29:45","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T19:29:45","slug":"quick-links-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=9465","title":{"rendered":"Quick Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>For representation theory aficionados, George Lusztig has put on the arXiv a long document with <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1707.09368\">comments on his papers<\/a> (for a bit more about him, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=402\">this<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>For a new idea exemplifying the potential grand unification of mathematics and physics, Minhyong Kim and others have been developing arithmetic Chern-Simons theory (see <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1510.05818\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1609.03012\">here<\/a>).  There was a <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.divms.uiowa.edu\/~fbleher\/CSMeeting2017.html\">recent workshop<\/a> on the topic, videos of talks available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCxgeCyy-iHr9T1RMT9OHMLw\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The editors of the Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics are leaving the Springer journal, setting up a new journal, Algebraic Combinatorics.  For more about this, there&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mathoa.org\/press\/\">press release<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2017\/07\/31\/math-journal-editors-resign-start-rival-open-access-journal\">story at Inside Higher Education<\/a>,  and a <a href=\"https:\/\/gowers.wordpress.com\/2017\/07\/27\/another-journal-flips\/\">blog entry by Timothy Gowers<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Landon Clay, founder of the Clay Mathematics Insitute, passed away last week, more about him available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.claymath.org\/landon-clay-founder-clay-mathematics-institute\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s a profile and interview with Carlo Rovelli <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huckmagazine.com\/art-and-culture\/print\/transformative-books\/activist-scientist-physics-reality-carlo-rovelli-interview\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>While Google continues to develop our new machine overlords, Google money will fund a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.ias.edu\/theoretical_machine_learning\">new IAS program<\/a> to address their theoretical underpinnings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For representation theory aficionados, George Lusztig has put on the arXiv a long document with comments on his papers (for a bit more about him, see this). 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